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Old 06-04-2009
Issues with cronjob : Script using sendmail

Hi All,

I am new to unix. I have created a cron job, that sends mail using sendmail utility. Am facing a unique problem while making a cron job for this script.

In the script I append a file to my mail using 'cat' command.

[code] cat $report >> $mailMsg [code]

& this $mailMsg is used as mail content(along with other static data) .

My problem is whenever I run the shell script manually everything works fine, the mail is sent successfully with my file($report) contents. But when a cron job executes the script, the mail is sent but the mail does not include the file contents($report).

Sample mail when script is executed manually executed:

========= Log Report =============
{$report contents}
===============================================================================
== Starting Test at: Jun 4, 2009 12:04:15 AM EDT

But from cron job I dont get report contents. Smilie

I only get 1st static line in mail.

========= Log Report =============

{no report file contents}

Can anyone tell me why is it happening?

Please help.

Thanks in Advance,
Anshul
 

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CALENDAR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CALENDAR(1)

NAME
calendar - reminder service SYNOPSIS
calendar [ - ] DESCRIPTION
Calendar consults the file `calendar' in the current directory and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date anywhere in the line. Most reasonable month-day dates such as `Dec. 7,' `december 7,' `12/7,' etc., are recognized, but not `7 December' or `7/12'. On weekends `tomorrow' extends through Monday. When an argument is present, calendar does its job for every user who has a file `calendar' in his login directory and sends him any posi- tive results by mail(1). Normally this is done daily in the wee hours under control of cron(8). FILES
calendar /usr/lib/calendar to figure out today's and tomorrow's dates /etc/passwd /tmp/cal* egrep, sed, mail subprocesses SEE ALSO
at(1), cron(8), mail(1) BUGS
Your calendar must be public information for you to get reminder service. Calendar's extended idea of `tomorrow' doesn't account for holidays. CALENDAR(1)
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